What Is This Weird Glowing Spot Hovering Over Pluto?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 3, 2016
Is it aliens? Sure sounds like aliens—but these strange, glowing patches over Pluto are actually something else (almost) as mysterious.
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New Horizons’ Best Close-Up of Pluto’s Surface0
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- May 27, 2016
New Horizons has given us the closest image of Pluto’s surface, letting us see what it’s like on the icy terrain.
Pluto’s ‘Fretted’ Terrain0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2016
New Horizons gives us a picture of Pluto’s surface, and the area is ‘fretted’.
New Horizons Collects First Science on a Post-Pluto Object0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 18, 2016
The New Horizons satellite has collected data about an object that is in the the Kuiper Belt.
First Stellar Occultations Shed Additional Light on Pluto’s Atmosphere0
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- May 17, 2016
New Horizons has observed on how Pluto’s atmosphere effects ultraviolet rays passing through it, and how it effects we observe stars beyond it.
Pluto’s Icy Moon Hydra0
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- May 6, 2016
New compositional data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a distinct water-ice signature on the surface of Pluto’s outermost moon, Hydra.
Pluto’s Haze Varies in Brightness0
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- April 18, 2016
Mission scientists have discovered that the layers of haze in Pluto’s nitrogen atmosphere vary in brightness depending on illumination and viewpoint.
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